SONGS of triumph ring out north and south of the Tienshan Mountains, and the sun shines brightly over the Tibetan Plateau. At a time when hundreds of millions of armymen and civilians throughout the country are marching from victory to victory under the inspiration of Chairman Mao's latest instructions, revolutionary committees have been established simultaneously in the Tibet Autonomous Region and the Sin-kiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China's southwestern and northwestern outposts in the battle against imperialism and revisionism! Revolutionary committees have now been set up in all the provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions of the country with the exception of Taiwan Province. This extremely magnificent spectacle — the whole country is red — is an important event in the sei2ing of all-round victory in the great cultural revolution. It indicates that the whole movement has entered the stage of struggle-criticism-transformation on a nationwide scale. This is a great victory for the invincible thought of Mao Tse-tung, a great victory for Chairman Mao's proletarian revolutionary line and an event of great joy in the political life of the 700 million people of our country! We extend our hearty congratulations to the revolutionary people of all nationalities in Tibet and Sinkiang, to all the commanders and fighters of the Chinese People's Liberation Army units stationed in Tibet and Sinkiang and to the fighters working on the state farms reclaimed by the Production and Construction Corps Under the Sinkiang Military Area Command! We extend our warm and militant salutations to the proletarian revolutionary comrades-in-arms all over the country who have closely followed Chairman Mao's revolutionary line and forged ahead courageously during the last two years! In the great proletarian cultural revolution, the proletarian revolutionaries and the revolutionary masses of all nationalities in Tibet and Sinkiang have stood firmly on the side of Chairman Mao's revolutionary line and have conscientiously carried out Chairman Mao's latest instructions. With the firm and strong support of the People's Liberation Army, they have, after repeated trials of strength and tenacious struggles against the class enemies, finally dug out the agents of China's Khrushchov in Sinkiang — Wu Kuang, Lu Chien-jen, Chang Chung-han, Iminov and Burhan Shahidi — and his agents in Tibet — Chou Jen-shan and Wang Chi-mei — who are a handful of renegades, U.S.Chiang Kai-shek special agents, special agents of the Soviet revisionists and of Britain, counter-revolutionary revisionists and national splittists. Thus the daydream of these class enemies to restore capitalism and undermine the unification of the motherland has been completely smashed and a heavy blow has been dealt to the schemes of the imperialists, modern revisionists and counter-revolutionaries for carrying out subversion and sabotage in the Tibet and Sinkiang regions. In the great struggle during the 20 months from the outburst of the storm of the "January Revolution" in Shanghai to the establishment of the two revolutionary committees in Tibet and Sinkiang, armymen and civilians throughout the country have fulfilled Chairman Mao's great call: "Proletarian revolutionaries, unite and seize power from the handful of Party persons in authority taking the capitalist road," and they have won decisive victory in the great proletarian cultural revolution across the land. Chairman Mao has taught us: "The aim of every revolutionary struggle in the world is the seizure and consolidation of political power.*' The class struggle under the dictatorship of the proletariat is, in essence, still a question of political power. The bourgeoisie wants to overthrow the dictatorship of the proletariat, whereas the proletariat wants to consolidate it. The handful of capitalist roaders in the Party are representatives of the bourgeoisie in the Party. The proletariat's seizing back of that portion of power of the Party, government, finance and culture which the handful of capitalist roaders usurped is a serious struggle in which the bourgeoisie attempts to restore capitalism while the proletariat opposes its doing so. It is a continuation of the proletarian revolution and a great political revolution made by the proletariat against the bourgeoisie and all other exploiting classes. The establishment of revolutionary committees in the provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions throughout the country proclaims the complete bankruptcy of the counter-revolutionary plot of China's Khrushchov and his agents everywhere to turn the dictatorship of the proletariat into the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. It has completely smashed all the counter-revolutionary rumours spread by U.S. imperialism and Soviet modern revisionism and dashed to pieces the wishful thinking of imperialism and modern revisionism to bring about "peaceful evolution in China. The establishment of revolutionary committees in the provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions throughout the country demonstrates the unparalleled might of the invincible thought of Mao Tse-tung when it is grasped by hundreds of millions of revolutionary people. It has greatly strengthened the dictatorship of the proletariat and greatly enriched and developed Marxism-Leninism. We heartily and warmly hail the great victory won by the revolutionary people under the leadership of the proletarian headquarters headed by Chairman Mao and with Vice-Chairman Lin Piao as its deputy leader. We will resolutely bring into full play the proletariat's thoroughgoing revolutionary spirit, closely follow Chairman Mao's great strategic plan, and consolidate and develop this victory through consistent and untiring struggle! Chairman Mao recently issued to the whole country the great call: "Carry out the tasks of struggle-criticism-transformation conscientiously." He ponied out:"Struggle crilicism-transformation in a factory, on (he whole, goes through the following stages: establishing a three-in-one revolutionary committee; carrying out mass criticism and repudiation; purifying the class ranks; consolidating the Party organization; and simplifying the administrative structure, changing irrational rules and regulations and sending office workers to the workshops." Chairman Mao's latest instructions reflect the objective law of the advance of the great proletarian cultural revolution to the stage of struggle-criticism-transformation. It expresses in concentrated form the pressing demands of the working class and the revolutionary masses and indicates in a clear-cut way the central tasks confronting the revolutionary committees at all levels. Doing a good job of struggle-criticism-transformation in each unit and each department is basic to the socialist revolution and socialist construction. It is of primary and lasting importance to preventing the restoration of capitalism and consolidating and developing the dictatorship of the proletariat. This is a battle to win all-round victory in the great proletarian cultural revolution. The revolutionary committees at all levels must vigorously grasp struggle-criticism-transformation and, in fulfilling this great historic task, bring their revolutionary might into fuller play and consolidate and develop the revolutionary committees. In order to fight the battle of struggle-criticism-transformation well, it is imperative to uphold working-class leadership and "bring into full play the leading role of the working class in the great cultural revolution and in all fields of work." And it should be seen to that every instruction of the great leader Chairman Mao and every order issued by the proletarian headquarters is carried out swiftly and smoothly; the reactionary bourgeois theory of "many centres," that is, the theory of "no centre," must be resolutely opposed, and our thinking must be unified and our steps and actions must be co-ordinated at the call of the proletarian headquarters headed by Chairman Mao and with Vice-Chairman Lin Piao as its deputy leader. At the same time, it is essential to arm the workers with the invincible thought of Mao Tse-tung, make constant efforts to raise the political consciousness of the working class so that it will be able to undertake still better its great historical mission of exercising leadership in everything, in the educational revolution, in the struggle-criticism-transformation in all spheres of the superstructure and in every task for carrying out Chairman Mao's great strategic plan. In order to fight well in the battle of struggle-criticism-transformation, it is imperative to strengthen ideological and political work, conscientiously do a good job of investigation and study and be good at seizing on typical examples. The revolutionary committees at all levels must firmly carry out all the proletarian policies put forward in the editorial note of the journal Hongqi, published in the newspapers on September 5 (see p. 13), These policies are the voice of the great leader Chairman Mao. Responsible members of the revolutionary committees must themselves select some particular points where they will gain experience and use this experience for guiding their overall work, and report the results to the Party's Central Committee. They must forge close links with the masses, listen to the opinions of the masses and pay special attention to overcoming all tendencies to divorce themselves from the masses. Chairman Mao has said; "Just because we have won victory, we must never relax our vigilance against the frenzied plots for revenge by the imperialists and their running dogs." We must conduct deep-going and sustained revolutionary mass criticism, take the initiative and mount fierce attacks against the class enemy, do a good job of purifying our class ranks, hit steadily, accurately and relentlessly at the handful of renegades, enemy agents, diehard capitalist roaders and the landlords, rich peasants, counter-revolutionaries, bad elements and Rightists who have not reformed themselves, and uncover all the counter-revolutionaries who are hiding in dark corners to make trouble and engage in sabotage. We must strengthen the unity between the army and the people, step up preparedness against war, strengthen our border defences and our coastal and air defences, and be ready at all times to liberate Taiwan and defend our country's socialist revolution and socialist construction. Should the enemy dare to touch China's sacred territory and launch an armed invasion, we will wipe him out resolutely, thoroughly, wholly and completely. Let us closely follow the great strategic plan of the great leader Chairman Mao and march forward in giant strides to successfully accomplish the great historic tasks of struggle-criticism-transformation. Lighted by the radiance of Mao Tse-tung's thought, our great socialist motherland will surely emerge even more majestic before the people of the whole world! Long live the victory of Chairman Mao's proletarian revolutionary line! Long live the all-round victory in the great proletarian cultural revolution!